Storage brooder



April 3, 1928. 1,665,102

F. w. LORD STORAGE BROODER Filed Feb. 28. 1927 gram J04,

Had W1 aid Patented Apr. 3, 1928.

UNITED TAT S aren't rFicE.

FRED W. LORD, OF TIP'ION, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO THE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, 013 TIPTON, INDIANA, A CORPQRATIGN F INDIANA.

STORAGE BROODER.

My invention relates to a storage brooder for baby chickens and it is an objectof the invention to provide an improved brooder of simple and compact construction to the I interior of which access may be easily had and consisting of a variable number of tiers or sections which may be easily kept clean and attractive in appearance, all as will be hereinafter more fully explained.

Referring to the accompanying drawings which are made a part hereof and on which similar reference characters indicate similar parts, I

Figure 1 is a front elevation partly in section illustrating one application of my invention,

Figure 2, a view taken on the line 2-2 of Figure 1,

Figure 3 an enlarged detail section on the line 33 of Figure .2,

Figure 4, an enlarged fragmentary detail section,

Figure 5, and v Figure 6, a diagrammatic view.

In thedrawings reference character 10 ndicates generally a. breeder section or tier any number of which may be used for forming a breeder of any desired size. Each section comprises a substantially rectangular body formed of a pair of opposed similarly formed top and bottom sections 11 and 12 respectively, connected by corner posts 13 preferably formed of angle iron or the like 35 material. Said corner posts preferably eX- tend through the top sections (see Fig. 5) and provide means for maintaining a plurality of tiers in superposed or stacked re lation. A central partition 14 also connects the top and bottom sections and divides each section or tier of the brooder into two compartments. The top and bottom sections are also provided with channels 15 formed along their edges for the reception of sliding doors 16 and 18, the inner door 16 of which is formed of reticulated wire having a metal binding 17 provided about its edge and the outer door 18 being formed of sheet metal and having its edge bent over at 19 to reenforce the same such door being provided with apertures 20 to permit necessary ventilation and a handle 21 by means of which it may be slid into or out of position. It will be understood from the foregoing that two doors are used at each outer side of a fragmentary top plan view,

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each compartment or three sets of doors are used for each compartment andvsix sets for a breeder section. The partition 14 which separates each compartment into two sections is preferably provided with an opening or doorway 22 to permit the chicks to pass from one compartment into the other. Removable reticulated wire trays 23 are preferably provided'for each compartment eachof said wire trays being provided with depending flanges 24.- for holding the body of the tray in spaced relation from the bottom or floor of the compartment so that the chicks are kept clean and dry on account of the waste matterfalling through The wire trays may be easily slid out and removed to permit the bottom of thebrooder to be cleaned or sprayed.

One compartment of each section is preferably provided with electric heating means which in thefpr'esent instance comprises a heating or resistance coil 25 controlled by a thermostat 26 carried by a support 27 and adapted to oscillate a contact arm 28 for engagement with a contact 29 for making and breaking the electric circuit. The heating coil 251 's provided with a plurality of circularinsulators 3O which surround the same and such circular insulators engage an annular heat reflecting ring 31 preferably curved in cross-section and having its edges crimped at 32 for connection with the edges of a similarly shaped reticulated wire screen 33-; On account of the cross-sectional curvature of the upper heating member 31, heat from the heating coil will be projected downwardly through the wire screen 33. The heating element is supported by brackets 34 in substantially the center of one of each pairof compartments. A ventilator tube 35 is provided for each compartment having a heating coil therein, and such tube extends through the top of the compartment substantially at the center of the heating coil but such tube preferably terminates a sufficient distance above the bottom of the compartment to permit the chicks to pass freely thereunder. The ventilator tube permits surplusheat to escape and with the arrangement of the tiers shown in Fig. 1 to be used in heating the compartment directly above that in which the tube is supported, such compartment not being provided with heating equipment. With a brooder of this type, constructed of a plurality of tiers having In lieu of the arrangement of the sections like those shown in Fig. 1, the staggered sections or tiers of the brooder may be reversed so that the compartments at one end of the breeder will all be heated while the. compartments at the other end are not thus forming exercising or fresh air compartments.

Also in lieu of the sliding metal doors, door sectionsot transparent material may be utilized to permit the warm rays of the sun to penetrate the interior of the brooder but which at the same timeexclude cold and Wind.

i It will be obvious to those skilled in the art that various changes mabe made in my device without departing ronl the spirit of my invention, and I, therefore, do not limit myself to what is shown in the drawings -and described in the specification but only as set forth in the appended claims.

Having thus fully described In said invention,what I claim as new anc desire to secure b Letters Patent, is: y

1. A rooder com rising a plurality of superposedr tiers, eat: 1 tier being provided with a central transverse partition forming a pair of compartmnts, doors slidably mounted at the outer sides of each eompart' ment and a heating element disposed in one compartment of each tier, said heating elements being disposed alternately attopposite ends 01' a the brooder, substantially as set forth.

2. A brooder comprising a luralit of superposed sections capable of eing isposed in alined or staggered relation, each section having a transverse partition forming a pair of compartments, one compartment ofeach section being provided with heating means vand a removable closure slidably mounted'at each open side of each compartment, substantially as set forth.

3. A brooder comprisinga plurality of superposed brooder sections, each section being formed of two compartments, and a heating element disposed in one compartment of each section and alternately at opposite sides of the brooder, substantially as set forth.

1. A brooder section adapted to be combined in superposed relation with other simi-- lar sections to form a complete brooder, heating means disposed at one side of the section, and a ventilating tube extending centrally of said heating means through the top of said section, said section having an imp'erforate bottom whereby when said section is assembled with other sections in alternate relation heat passing through the venti lating tube will heat the imperforate bottom of the adjacent section, substantially as set forth.

5. A brooder section bined in superposed relation with other simi lar sections to form a complete brooder, heating means disposed at one side of the section, a ventilating tube extendin canadapted to be com- 7 trally of said heating means through t ejtop of said section,said section havin an imperforate bottom whereby when said section isassembled wlth other sections in alternate relation heat passing through the ventilating tube will heat theiniperforate bottom of a a the adjacent section, an a reticulated tray having its body disposed in spacedrelation above the bottom of said section, substantially as set forth. i

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set miy hand at Tipton, Indiana, this 25th da 0 February, A. D. nineteen hundred an twenty-seven.

QFRED WQ'LORD, I v 

